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Family Communication Talk—Due to a P.T.A. Meeting scheduled for October 26, this meeting will be rescheduled.
RWC To Meet
The Rappahannock Women’s Club will hold their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. at the home of Linda Hahn. Please notify the hostess if you are unable to attend.
Bridge Party
Mrs. T. J. Pillar was hostess to the Sperryville Bridge Club and additional guests at her home Friday evening.
Guests were Mrs. Brown Miller, Mrs. Frances Tabler, Mrs. Mary Quaintance, Mrs. R. E. Wood, Mrs. Judson Smith, Mrs. C. E. Johnson, Jr. and her houseguest Mrs. Anna Lee Sutherland of St. Louis, Mo.
Winners were Mrs. Tabler, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Sutherland.
Despite emphasis on energy conservation at a local and national level, Potomac Edison says its customers during the first eight months of 1977 used a record 5,327,000 megawatt-hours of electricity, which is 9.2 percent higher than the usage for the same period last year in its three-state service area. All classes of customers have recorded increases, according to PE. Residential use has increased 11.2 percent, commercial use increased 7.7 percent and industrial use was up 7.1 percent. Potomac Edison executive vice president and general -manager J. M. McCardell said the increase here is higher than the national average and higher than PE’s own long-range forecast of an increase in electric usage of a little over six percent per year. The average Potomac Edison residential customer now uses 11,086 kwh a year, an increase of 583 kwh in just the first eight months of this year. “It is alarming to see our conservative growth forecasts exceeded,” McCardell said, “when we are already predicting shortages of electricity here in the mid80’s with a six percent annual increase in use.”
McCardell said the company’s ability to finance the necessary construction program to meet future demand has been hampered by failure of some of its regulatory commissions to grant adequate rate increases in the past. “It takes six to ten years to build a new generating station,” McCardell continued, “and it may already be too late to provide for all the needs of our customers ip the midThe
PE officer praised conservation efforts made by many of the company’s customers in the past and urged continuing emphasis on saving electricity and other forms of energy.
Electric
Usage
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95.2%